{"id":198,"date":"2009-08-12T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-10-07T21:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T02:59:22","slug":"new-knobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"New Knobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"newknobs01 by mongchacha, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mongchacha\/3816918952\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3569\/3816918952_3426727a65.jpg\" alt=\"newknobs01\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>found these beautifully machined knobs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvac.com\">Mar Vac Electronics<\/a>. the original ones were flimsy plastic &#8211; i had already kicked one off. Maxon made some pretty nice pedals back in the day (i think their pedals are still nice, but i haven&#8217;t tried them) but used unusually weak parts for some components. to make it worse, these parts are impossible to find. i already had to have special 1\/4&#8243; jacks sent from Maxon in Japan (!) to replace one that had cracked. replacing these knobs weren&#8217;t easy either. the shaft wasn&#8217;t a full 1\/4&#8243; cylinder. it was a freakin&#8217; 1\/4&#8243; shaft cut in half! after finding some plastic material to fill in the gaps i was able to get these knobs on successfully. happy with the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>found these beautifully machined knobs at Mar Vac Electronics. the original ones were flimsy plastic &#8211; i had already kicked one off. Maxon made some pretty nice pedals back in the day (i think their pedals are still nice, but i haven&#8217;t tried them) but used unusually weak parts for some components. to make it worse, these parts are impossible to find. i already had to have special 1\/4&#8243; jacks sent from Maxon in Japan (!) to replace one that had cracked. replacing these knobs weren&#8217;t easy either. the shaft wasn&#8217;t a full 1\/4&#8243; cylinder. it was a freakin&#8217; 1\/4&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,121,9,89],"tags":[171,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}